Tag: WPF Kiosk Mode

If you’re developing a kiosk application you’ve probably wondered what technology you should use.

The two most common options are creating a website or a native application. In this article we’ll focus on the benefits of creating a native kiosk application.

Our developers have been creating large-scale, unattended payment applications for many years now and the following are the reasons we choose to develop our kiosk applications as a native application (typically in .NET WPF).

Integrating a bill acceptor into your .NET WPF application can be a daunting task, so we’ve created the KioskSimple API to ease the pains of integration by providing an abstracted C# API for popular bill acceptors. To get you started quickly we’ve created code examples on integrating bill acceptors in .NET WPF C#.

In this article I’ll explain how to disable the Windows Sleep and Hibernation Power Options directly from your kiosk application. Imagine the scenario where your kiosk goes to sleep and potential customers see nothing but a black screen. Many customers will assume the kiosk is out of order and keep right on walking. To make matter worse, when the user touches the screen they’ll be greeted by a Windows login prompt and chances are they won’t know the password. Continue reading “Disabling Windows Sleep and Hibernation From Your Kiosk Application”

In this article I’ll explain how to temporarily disable the built in Windows screen saver from your kiosk application. If you’ve created a native Windows application (i.e. .NET WPF) to run on your self-service kiosk you probably don’t want it to be interrupted by the Windows screen saver. Sure you could go to the screen saver settings and disable the screen saver completely but then you’d have to do that on ever single kiosk. It would be more convenient to temporarily disable the screen saver only while your kiosk application is running. Continue reading “Disabling the Windows Screen Saver From Your Kiosk Application”

Adding a webcam to your kiosk application can go a long way to improve the security of your kiosk. In the case of disputed credit card charges (i.e. chargebacks) it can help to have a picture of the customer swiping the card in question. One of our main goals with KioskSimple was to make it really easy for kiosk application developers to integrate popular kiosk devices, like webcams, into their kiosks. The KioskSimple developer API supports integrating a webcam into your website or .NET WPF kiosk application and we have code examples to get you started. Continue reading “Integrating a Webcam Into Your Kiosk Application”

If you’re planning to build a .NET kiosk application in WPF then you’ll be pleasantly surprised just how easily this can be accomplish by using the KioskSimple developer API. One of our main goals for KioskSimple was to provide a .NET WPF developer friendly platform that would make it simple to develop powerful WPF kiosk applications in C#. We take care of securing the kiosk so you can focus on developing your WPF kiosk application. Continue reading “Building a .NET WPF Kiosk Application Is Easy With KioskSimple”

Does your kiosk application need to support accepting payments or possibly integrate with some elaborate biometric device? If so then we’ve got a solution that your developers will love. The KioskSimple Developer API is specifically designed to make it easier, simple even, to integrate popular kiosk devices with your kiosk application. We’ve provided code examples in .NET WPF C# for native Windows applications and JavaScript for websites to get your started quickly. Our developers have done all the heavy lifting by creating an abstracted interface (aka API) for popular kiosk devices so you don’t have to understand all of the ins and out of these intricate devices.

Here are just a few examples of the sort of kiosk devices our API supports: